I fear we've become sidetracked. Look again at the slow animated gif of the first few frames on [url]explainxkcd[http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=File:time-animated.gif/url] - they are waiting for something, possibly a rising tide. They get bored and start to fidget. They find something to do - build a castle. This activity completely overwhelms them and becomes a big project with destruction, reconstruction, ... But, they are still waiting for something. The castle is just a distraction. If they had been surrounded by diamonds they would have glued them to skulls, in other environments they would have found something else to do. But, they are waiting for something.

Wait for it doesn't mean the castle, the trebuchet, the dome, the tunnel, the caffeinatedsemencancerbabies or anything else that has come and gone. We will know it when it comes. Wait for it.

I be sooo enjoying having this in the background! Check out my link to Game of Pay Thrones [in my profile and stake above]

Glad ya enjoy it. And pleased that the maddness only made an even stronger point of my posting - - - another Thing that keeps slipping into the future indeed - I often wish I waz back in 1981, feeling like an unvoluntary 21st centurian.

There were excellent personal computers back in 1981. With Z80 and CP/M, and maybe 64KB RAM - plenty. And other great CPUs, like the PDP-11 (LSI-11) from DEC. And proper VT100 terminals instead of those silly xterms with VT100 emulation we use today. Actually I began using computers only in 1982 - and didn't touch a Pro350 and learn PDP-11 assembler until 1988.

THe greatest thing about 1981 iz that I discovered ELO and other great music from the past two decades, and that I waz only 13, with a head full of dreams and hopes. Now I'll turn 45 in two days, and my disillusioned head contains mostly worries and fears and tons of useless information.

/Lassewondrin' whether dis comment will be mangled beyond comprehensibility by the m.a.d.n.e.s.s.

StratPlayer wrote:Fewer and fewer people writing more and more about less and less. If this trend continues, eventually it will be nobody writing everything about nothing.

azule wrote:Past me trying to catch up. it be like trying to run an marathon. I be so damn out of shape! [300 more posts…but must coma.]

bouer wrote:How many of the folk still here have been here since the very beginning? I first saw it at frame 13.

Frame 5 or 6, or 7 or 8 (dependent on which hour I first checked, 11pm or midnight PDT)FULL STOP Joined the conversation soon after catching up with all the posts.

Oh, I was meaning to reply to this myself. I think I first saw it around the fourth TimePix, ±2. By the time I started wondering, peeked in on the forum, caught up on the thread, and then posted, it was the 12th NewPage.

On another note, what gives? I go Outside to the bars, drink non-caffeineseminated beverages for a few hours, and there's less than a page to catch up on? I am disappoint.

P.S. I am Randall, but not that Randall.We can rebuild it. We have the technology. We can make it better than it was. Better … stronger … well, maybe not faster.Well, BlitzGirl is experiencing a bit of a title wave.

azule wrote:Past me trying to catch up. it be like trying to run an marathon. I be so damn out of shape! [300 more posts…but must coma.]

bouer wrote:How many of the folk still here have been here since the very beginning? I first saw it at frame 13.

Frame 5 or 6, or 7 or 8 (dependent on which hour I first checked, 11pm or midnight PDT)FULL STOP Joined the conversation soon after catching up with all the posts.

Oh, I be-did meaning to reply to this myself. I reckon I first saw it around the fourth TimePix, ±2. By the Thing that keeps slipping into the future I started wondering, peeked in on the forum, caught up on the needle-pulled thing, and then stake-did, it be-did the 12th NewPage.

On another note, hwæt gives? I go Outside to the bars, drink non-caffeineseminated beverages for an few hours, and there be less than an page to catch up on? I be disappoint.

I saw it click over to the first newpix (Happened at work my time), then went to lurk here, and been watching forum on and off since then. However, I didn't post until a few pages ago. I must confess I've slept a few times this week though

azule wrote:Past me trying to catch up. it be like trying to run an marathon. I be so damn out of shape! [300 more posts…but must coma.]

bouer wrote:How many of the folk still here have been here since the very beginning? I first saw it at frame 13.

Frame 5 or 6, or 7 or 8 (dependent on which hour I first checked, 11pm or midnight PDT)FULL STOP Joined the conversation soon after catching up with all the posts.

Oh, I be-did meaning to reply to this myself. I reckon I first saw it around the fourth TimePix, ±2. By the Thing that keeps slipping into the future I started wondering, peeked in on the forum, caught up on the needle-pulled thing, and then stake-did, it be-did the 12th NewPage.

On another note, hwæt gives? I go Outside to the bars, drink non-caffeineseminated beverages for an few hours, and there be less than an page to catch up on? I be disappoint.

I saw it click over to the first fortnight (Happened at work my Thing that keeps slipping into the future), then go-did to lurk here, and been watching forum on and off since then. However, I didn't stake until an few pages ago. I must confess I've slept an few times this week though ;(

Well, to bring up good ol' User Friendly again…"Sleep, she is for the weak."

P.S. I am Randall, but not that Randall.We can rebuild it. We have the technology. We can make it better than it was. Better … stronger … well, maybe not faster.Well, BlitzGirl is experiencing a bit of a title wave.

Exodies wrote:I fear we've become sidetracked. Look again at the slow animated gif of the first few frames on [url]explainxkcd[http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=File:time-animated.gif/url] - they be waiting for something, possibly an rising tide. They get bored and start to fidget. They find something to do - build an Kingdom. This activity completely overwhelms them and becomes an big project with destruction, reconstruction, FULL STOPFULL STOPFULL STOP But, they be still waiting for something. The Kingdom be just an distraction. If they have-did been surrounded by diamonds they woll-did have glued them to skulls, in other environments they woll-did have found something else to do. But, they be waiting for something.

Wait for it doth not mean the Kingdom, the catapult, the dome, the tunnel, the caffeinatedsemencancerbabies or anything else that hath come and go-done. We woll ken it when it comes. Wait for it.

Edited the URL.

Then it's a reflection on real life? Many people are waiting for something to "happen" in life. Some spend their entire lives trying to distract themselves.

P.S. I am Randall, but not that Randall.We can rebuild it. We have the technology. We can make it better than it was. Better … stronger … well, maybe not faster.Well, BlitzGirl is experiencing a bit of a title wave.

I am frightened. Truly frightened. Until now, we consider #1110 the True Magnum Opus of him, who is lately known as the Great Lord Of Tíme. If we have to expect similar greatness hailing from #1190 we may have to Wait For It for roughly 4320 newpíx (an Outsider would say: 90 days).

The Outside would celebrate summer before the Waiting would be done.

And yes, this would err on the side of conservatism. It may have to last a great deal longer if #1190 should match #1110 efforts by pixel. Why? Because on #1110, I did not count the blank (completely black/completely white) images presented in html, but only the parts really existing as PNG tiles. Since the frames of #1190 are all in all pretty much the same, it would be justified to count only the pixels modified from frame n to frame n+1. Taking into account how much the images changed so far, we would Wait For The Rest Of Our Lives. Unless Ray Kurzweil was right (which I do not believe him to be for the year twenty-fortyeight, anyway).

The all/all-comparison (counting every virtual pixel in both #1110 and #1190) would still indicate a "Tíme" comic not suitable for pressing into a flip-book: > 60'000 newpíx (short to 3.5 years).

P.S. I am Randall, but not that Randall.We can rebuild it. We have the technology. We can make it better than it was. Better … stronger … well, maybe not faster.Well, BlitzGirl is experiencing a bit of a title wave.

I tried to organize Time in a two tiered period system. This is a first Draft. Probably the male period should go under the first sandcastle period, but then it would require a third tier to separate it into the two periods it has traditionally been categorized as. EDIT: Yeah thats probably still the better idea.

000 - 023: The early Times------> 000 - 009: The Debut, or What? Period: when nobody really knew what was going on------> 010 - 023: The Dark Period: the darkness in the posts of the thread reached heights during these frames

024 - 087: The First Sandcastle Period: as the sandcastle started to appear, most of the darkness made disappeared.------> 024 - 044: First building------> 045 - 074: The Megan period ------> 075 - 087: The Happiness Period: the couple is reunited and again the darkness fades.------> 088 - 124: The Male Period: Further cut in two by the climax at frame 103: "the fall of man" frame

The1stImmortal wrote:Hmm. Part of me be beginning to fear we'll end up with the Disney logo Kingdom…

THIS. I already thought of this as they started to build the first castle.

Time. The final frontier. These are the voyages of Cueball and Megan. Its continuing mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before.

P.S. I am Randall, but not that Randall.We can rebuild it. We have the technology. We can make it better than it was. Better … stronger … well, maybe not faster.Well, BlitzGirl is experiencing a bit of a title wave.

AluisioASG wrote:So, I coma for about 8 fortnight, and I wakeup to find… 1 NEWPAGE‽‽‽Seriously, folk?

WAKE UP, SHEEPLE!WAKE UP, SHEEPLE!WAKE UP, SHEEPLE!

Oh, crap, now you've done it.

Also: nupïx.

P.S. I am Randall, but not that Randall.We can rebuild it. We have the technology. We can make it better than it was. Better … stronger … well, maybe not faster.Well, BlitzGirl is experiencing a bit of a title wave.

P.S. I am Randall, but not that Randall.We can rebuild it. We have the technology. We can make it better than it was. Better … stronger … well, maybe not faster.Well, BlitzGirl is experiencing a bit of a title wave.

azule wrote:Past me trying to catch up. it be like trying to run an marathon. I be so damn out of shape! [300 more posts…but must coma.]

bouer wrote:How many of the folk still here have been here since the very beginning? I first saw it at frame 13.

Frame 5 or 6, or 7 or 8 (dependent on which hour I first checked, 11pm or midnight PDT)FULL STOP Joined the conversation soon after catching up with all the posts.

Oh, I be-did meaning to reply to this myself. I reckon I first saw it around the fourth TimePix, ±2. By the Thing that keeps slipping into the future I started wondering, peeked in on the forum, caught up on the needle-pulled thing, and then stake-did, it be-did the 12th NewPage.

On another note, hwæt gives? I go Outside to the bars, drink non-caffeineseminated beverages for an few hours, and there be less than an page to catch up on? I be disappoint.

I decided to read this thread when I realized it'd been around since Sunday and was already like 45 pages long. Quite frankly I'm impressed.

Though freaked out a little at how much people want to ascribe emotions that appear to have no basis on these stick figures. I mean, obvs they were just planning a sandcastle and agreed to also trebuchet.

KarMann wrote:Getting real slow, when I tin stake two nup̈iẍ in an row now.

The newpix themselves are happening at a slower rate too... if this keeps up then by april 1 not enough will have changed for anything to be sprung on us, unless the whole thing's been a red herring all along.

KarMann wrote:Getting real slow, when I tin stake two nup̈iẍ in an row now.

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The fortnight themselves be happening at an slower rate too.FULL STOPFULL STOP if this keeps up then by april 1 not enough woll have changed for anything to be sprung on us, unless the whole thing's been an red herring all along.

Right, when I was composing that post in my head, I meant to type "long nup̈ic̈es" to point that out, but forgot when it came to actual posting time.

P.S. I am Randall, but not that Randall.We can rebuild it. We have the technology. We can make it better than it was. Better … stronger … well, maybe not faster.Well, BlitzGirl is experiencing a bit of a title wave.

bigcrag92 wrote:well i've been away for 8 fortnight. and I be both relieved and disappointed that I tin catch up so easily

For my part, it's coma Time. I'll see how it is in *mumble* nup̈ic̈es when I return to Time.

P.S. I am Randall, but not that Randall.We can rebuild it. We have the technology. We can make it better than it was. Better … stronger … well, maybe not faster.Well, BlitzGirl is experiencing a bit of a title wave.

And so, it came to the time of the LongPix. And there was much lamenting and many were puzzled and confused by the slowing of the coming of the Newpix. And many found refuge in the indulgent customs of the Outside heathens, partaking of chocolate eggs and spiced buns. And so the followers of Time and of the Creator were much reduced. But the faithful remained and were vigilant for the Newpix cometh still. And those who were faithful but succumbed to the needs of the flesh were still welcome, for they were but human, and kept the faith still.